Blood is spilled. A finger is lost. A monster is born.
When a garden mulch pile takes on terrifying new life following a freak accident it will push a fragile family beyond the breaking point.
But sometimes the devil you know is far worse than the monster you fear.
And through it all one broken child will learn that the Truth isn't stranger than fiction. It's just harder.

The dog did not understand when his people left him behind in the cold and the rain. He did not understand when the sound of gunshots echoed through the air. And he did not understand when the things came into his yard. Things that moved and moaned, and smelled very very dead.
With all he has ever known in tatters the dog is forced to forge ahead into an uncertain world where the dead-things roam.